March 2, 2011

LOS ANGELES - UCLA Athletics will host the fifth annual Marathon Kids Final Mile Medal Celebration on Saturday, March 5 at Drake Stadium. Hundreds of kindergarten through 5th graders, their families and teachers from around the greater Los Angeles Area will return to UCLA to mark the end of the five-month program. Participants will run the final lap and a half of their incremental 26.2 mile marathon, and receive their participant medals from UCLA student-athletes and community volunteers.

Marathon Kids® is a free, fifteen-year-old, trademarked, incremental, school and community based fitness program. Approximately 20,000 kindergarten to fifth-graders from the Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach and Long Beach school districts, as well as private schools and home-schooled children and independent families. Physical educators, classroom teachers, and parents have incorporated Marathon Kids into their curriculum, after school programs, and at home with their families.

For more information on Marathon Kids please visit www.marathonkids.org.